Life Time Achievement Award for govt teachers in Punjab

Government school teachers in Punjab will be felicitated with a 'Life Time Achievement Award' in recognition of their contribution to education, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said.
The award, carrying a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, would encourage the teaching fraternity to excel in the field of education by upgrading their teaching skills and adopting innovative practices, and by creating a bonding between them and pupils, the Chief Minister said at launch of 'Mukh Mantri Vigyan Yatra.
Badal said his government is enhancing the award money being given to the teachers conferred with state award from the government schools from Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000 every year.

The Chief Minister asked the Education Minister to put in place a mechanism for timely recruitment.
The Chief Minister asked the students to shun the practice of copying in the exams.
He said that it was incumbent on the part of parents and school teachers to motivate the students to work hard to secure high marks by dint of hard labour.

He said the government was mulling to regularise the
services of the contractual employees in various departments, adding that a decision to this effect would be taken very soon.
On the occasion, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal claimed that there was a "massive wave" in favour of the SAD-BJP alliance in the run-up to the Assembly polls.

He also claimed that both the Congress and the AAP would be "swept away" in the "tsunami" of the alliance which was all set to form the government in the state for the third consecutive term and added that the impressive gathering was a proof that the people were solidly behind it.
Coming down on AAP national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Sukhbir claimed that he wanted to assume power in Punjab only to "settle the score with the Union government" and added that if the party was voted to power, there would be a direct clash between the state and the Centre which would be "disastrous" for the former as it would have to rely on the latter for development-oriented issues and policies.

"Punjab can progress only if the SAD-BJP combine retains power. It can get the maximum benefits for the state from the BJP-led government at the Centre," he claimed.
Sukhbir alleged that Amarinder had done "nothing" for Punjab and it was on record that even the Congress MLAs could not list even a single achievement during his tenure as chief minister in the Assembly.
He announced that 2,000 medical stores would soon be opened across the state to distribute free medicines among the people.
Likewise, he said skill development centres would be set up in every block to impart free technical education to the people, thereby enabling them to be gainfully self-employed.

Addressing the gathering, state Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia slammed both the Congress and the AAP for their "anti-Punjab and anti-Sikh" mindset.
Cautioning the people about Kejriwal's party, he called the Delhi Chief Minister a "con man" who "habitually duped" the people by showing them greener pastures.
He claimed that Kejriwal had "failed" as a chief minister as he had not fulfilled even a single promise made to the people.